Their mission is to improve Florida’s alimony law memorialized in the 1860’s and slightly tweaked in 2012 – so that both party’s – the potential PAYOR and RECIPIENT of alimony – are equally considered before alimony is awarded and during their lifetime for changes in circumstances.

With a new alimony bill submitted for review to the Florida legislative in September 2015, opposition continually makes alimony a feminist issue – but it seems to be more about who has the most money.

And, with 40% of working women out-earning their husbands, women are more and more becoming alimony PAYORS.

During a recent committee meeting, women testified tearfully about hardships for their children – and while family matters tend to be emotional for men and women, it is important to note that Florida’s Alimony Law has nothing to do with Florida’s Child Support Law.

In addition to increasing the fairness and reducing costs for divorce and alimony proceedings, if passed, the new alimony bill would not be retroactive, and will not result in termination of alimony for senior women, who represent less than 1% of alimony recipients.

The new alimony bill has a lot of support behind it, as Florida’s citizens are PAYORS that must live with the uncertainty of how they can pay – once they no longer can work.

In other words, how the State of Florida should consider changes in their circumstances – for example, when PAYORS are burdened with dramatic drops or complete stops in income, at retirement when social security starts, and when permanent or temporary medical and handicapped conditions arise.

Worse, rarely do the RECIPIENTS changes in circumstances come into play – such as when a RECIPIENT is fully supported by a live-in partner and no longer needs alimony to survive – or when a RECIPIENT is qualified to work but holds off looking for a job because they would lose alimony.

Current law does not afford the PAYOR nor RECIPIENT to plan for the future. If elected officials do not bring some measure of predictability and fairness to the equation, both sides can end up bankrupt when the PAYOR’s income stream ends.

Support Florida Alimony Reform at FixAlimony.com, or call 800-239-0867.

ABUSED ALIMONY PAYORS IN FLORIDA HAVE 4 OPTIONS

TAVARES, FL - 12/2/2015 (PRESS RELEASE JET) -- Last month, a proposed bill for alimony reform, HB 455, passed the first Legislative Committee in Florida. It was not without debate and detractors. As a matter of fact, this session seems to have brought out many more citizens who are objecting to the proposed law.

WOMEN

The first category consists of women who feel that they gave up a large part of their lives to raise children. They feel they now may be aged out of the workforce and claim, as they have in the past, they are entitled to remuneration for their efforts in the home.

The non-profit organization, FloridaAlimonyReform.com agrees with this argument. However, we disagree with is how the time and amount of that remuneration is currently determined. Permanent alimony and the accompanying current law surrounding it is simply unfathomable in today’s economic society.

It puts an impossible financial burden on the PAYOR, allowing for a continued attitude of entitlement by the receiver. Under these adverse conditions, this can cause lifelong emotional devastation to the children of the divorcing spouses. Furthermore, the amounts that are being ordered as payment by the judiciary are inconsistent and have no predictability from one jurisdiction to the next.

Women have been the primary recipients of alimony for many years, so it’s no wonder why they are opposing a law that may stop their steady income stream. Interestingly, men are beginning to receive alimony as women become more dominant in the workplace and are now earning more than their husbands.

In either case, when RECIPIENTS of alimony read the proposed law, they would understand that the change in the law itself does not constitute a decrease or an elimination of their alimony income. It is only when a substantial change of circumstance occurs – one that allows for a reduction or elimination of alimony, and only after a ruling by the courts – will their alimony income be affected.

When RECIPIENTS do not read the proposed law, they act out of ignorance or fear of the unknown. This is something Florida legislators will not condone and will continue to vet the proposal to get what they consider to be fair results for all citizens.

ATTORNEYS

The second category of those opposing our proposal is certain renegade attorneys who believe either that the law should remain as it is or that, at the very least, a study should be conducted to understand fully the problems before we decide how to deal with the issue. We disagree with the argument that a study is needed.

Current alimony law, like insidious cancer, is figuratively – and sometimes literally – killing our citizens, and causing irreparable damage to the family unit in our society.

For example, when doctors see a tumor, they typically cut it out before it grows or metastasizes. Sure, they can study it some more, but at what cost to the patient? They handle the situation as efficiently as possible, then follow up routinely to make certain they got it all. Similarly, outdated and dysfunctional alimony laws need to be “cut out” as soon as possible because they are harmful to our citizens.

The second reason a study is not necessary is because our legislators have already considered alimony reform for the better part of the 8 years that we have been working with them and the Family Section. Many of you will remember that initially, and for many years after that, the leaders of the Family Section stated that Florida had “among the most progressive alimony laws in the Nation.” They argued that there was no reason to change current law.

Florida Alimony Reform, as the largest alimony reform group in the Nation, with the help of many individuals in our membership, effectively educated our legislators that current law is financially self-serving to the litigating attorneys, at the expense of divorcing spouses and their families. Now, after 8 years of presenting testimony and many conversations, undergoing constant negotiations, and incorporating political-driven intervention, leaders of the Family Section of the Florida Bar have now agreed that not only is the change needed, it is expected.

The final reason a study is not necessary is because setting up a task force to study a problem that is obvious and in need of change is simply an overt and transparent attempt to maintain the status quo for those individuals – alimony recipients or litigating renegade attorneys – who personally benefit from the continued income allotted to them by current law. Many more years would be wasted in figuring out how to set it up and determining who would be a part of such a task force. That is not how our legislators envision fairness to our citizens.

We are absolutely for collecting appropriate data and information that will assist us in monitoring and amending the new law as necessary in future legislative sessions. No law is perfect, and we know that our proposed law will likely have judicial hiccups along the way. We will deal with those situations when they occur by understanding the rules and guidelines established by the courts, and presenting information to our legislators for amendments when necessary. Our first mission, however, is to set up a change in current law for alimony reform. We will then work on any amendments to that law.

WITH A NEW LAW IN PLACE• We will eliminate the permanency of alimony and create realistic and comprehensive rules for when we can expect a modification or an ending to an alimony order.• We will have much more consistency and predictability in court rulings, and that will help attorneys inform their divorcing clients, with some certainty, as to what to expect in court if they still choose to litigate. In turn, it is then believed that this new process will lead to less litigation and more mediation and collaboration for divorcing spouses.• As a cause and effect, our children will benefit from better relationships with both parents.

TO ENSURE THAT THE NEW ALIMONY BILL PASSES:

1 - MAKE DONATIONS TO FLORIDA ALIMONY REFORMAt FixAlimony.com, you can donate any amount one time, make it recurring monthly, or mail a check in. Anyone donating more than $10,000 per year will have direct access to the Florida Alimony Reform board and politicians to provide direct feedback on your personal alimony challenges.

Florida Alimony Reform is the non-profit that invests funds to perform surveys, research, statistical analysis, and communicates alimony abuse to the citizens of Florida, the media, and in-person meeting with legislators in Tallahassee of Florida’s House and Senate committees, convincing them to vote to pass the new bill, which the process is expected to be completed by mid-2016.

2 - CONTACT FLORIDA’S LEGISLATORS – ON THE COMMITTEES FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA’S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE

- The more that legislators hear from Florida’s citizens, the apter they are to pass the new bill.

Before a bill is voted on by the state’s House of Representatives and Senators, their separate committees schedule public hearings for anyone to testify for, or against the bill. The hearings are broadcast live on The Florida Channel, which also provides a video library of the replays.

At the conclusion of each hearing, the committee votes on the bill, and the results are immediate. If the bill is not approved, it is dead – if it is approved, the bill moves on to the next committee.

After all committees in the House, and all committees in the Senate pass their separate bills, which may be slightly different, each of their bills go to the floors of the House and Senate for debate, and finally a vote.

Whichever completes a vote first, the House or Senate (as long as both vote favorably), that bill becomes the lead bill, and will be presented to the Governor for signature.

The Governor must sign it into law or veto it within a required timeframe. If neither occurs in time, the bill automatically becomes law.

Since the House of Representatives CIVIL JUSTICE SUBCOMMITTEE has already approved one of the alimony bills – please contact the members of these committees below which still have to vote. Please note that based on the contact information provided in these links, you may have to call, write or email:

And track all 4 bills currently moving through the process. On this page, click TRACK THIS BILL in the top right corner of bill SB 250, and then register. Also, scroll down the page to gray horizontal bar that has the other three RELATED BILLS, and click the yellow icon called TRACK BILLS for each bill.

You will then receive email notices as each committee sets a hearing date. Unfortunately, committees only provide a 48-hour notice before the hearing. However, notice is usually provided sooner at Florida Alimony Reform.

WHY WE NEED YOUWe couldn’t have gotten this far without the financial assistance of our members. We have reached out to many of you for additional support over the years because it takes money to accomplish our goals.

Your financial support enables us to travel to Tallahassee and speak to our legislators.

It allows us to maintain our website; to help fund legislative campaigns; pay our Lobbyist, Administrator, Accountant, and PR people, as well as continue to participate in events where we can lobby for an actual progressive law that benefits not any self-serving group but our citizens.

This year will prove to be our most challenging because many more people recognize that there is a distinct movement toward actually changing current law. The people against reform can be loud – but, we must be louder.

We will be heading to Tallahassee numerous times this session to maintain our credibility and voice for reform. We need to show them that all of us – not just a few – are determined and that we expect them to act for change.

THANK YOU for your continued support and with everyone’s help, there may finally be a reform light at the end of this long legislative session tunnel.

Factual Missteps Are Slowing National Campaign to End Partner Abuse, SAVE Says

WASHINGTON / October 1, 2013 – Victim-advocacy group Stop Abusive and Violent Environments warns that factual errors and misrepresentations in public education efforts sponsored by domestic violence organizations may represent an obstacle in the on-going effort to rid the nation of domestic violence. SAVE issues the alert in conjunction with Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which is observed in October each year.

The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) project, a summary of over 1,700 domestic violence research studies, concludes that mutual abuse among partners is commonplace, and men and women engage in partner aggression at similar rates: http://domesticviolenceresearch.org/

Despite the PASK findings, SAVE notes some domestic violence organizations continue to ignore the problem of mutual abuse and minimize female-initiated aggression: www.saveservices.org/camp/truth/. Some groups maintain that domestic violence is an expression of patriarchal power, a stance that ignores the plight of thousands of women caught in abusive same-sex relationships.

“Domestic Violence Awareness Month is supposed to be about enhancing citizens’ understanding of domestic violence,” notes SAVE spokesperson Sheryle Hutter. “But groups that distort the truth are keeping us from ending the cycle of violence.”

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Obnoxious ‘Renegade’ Justice ~ Family Courts

The abuses of parents and children by Family Courts, social workers, and family law attorneys have harmed parents and children for far too long. We intend to end that abuse

Family court is designed by its makers to be probably the most dangerous life event parents and children can endure. It enables and profits from every inhumane instinct known to man—greed, hate, resentment, fear—resulting in abundant cash flow for the divorce industry and a fallout of parent and children’s misery.

And behind the curtain of this machine of misery we’ve uncovered its cause—the multi-billion dollar divorce industry, populated by judges, attorneys, and a machinery of tax-dollar fed “judicial administrators,” social workers that George Orwell would marvel at.

We’ve been delivering that message kindly for years now, yet the tide keeps rising on families in crisis. We’ve appealed to the county courts, state and local politicians, state judicial oversight bodies, United States Representatives, and just plain old human dignity, but the harassment and abuse of parents and children has only increased. A resort to federal court intervention in the widespread criminal collusion in state government was the next logical step.

It’s time to recognize Family Court for what it is—a corporate crime ring raiding parents and children of financial and psychological well-being, and devouring our children’s futures. And its not just divorce lawyers—its judges, “judicial administrators,” psychologists, cops and prosecutors—people we should be able to trust—in a modern day criminal cabal using county courtrooms and sheriff’s deputies as the machinery of organized crime.

Since state officials’ hands are too deep into the cookie jar to stop their own abuse, we’re seeking the assistance of federal oversight.

The present-day suffering of so many parents and children has and is being wrought within a larger system characterized by a widespread institutional failure of—indeed contempt for—the rule of law.

Family courts, the legal community, professional institutions such as the state bar, psychology boards, and criminal justice institutions have in the recent decade gradually combined to cultivate a joint enterprise forum in which widespread “family practice” exceptions to the rule of law are not only tolerated, but increasingly encouraged. Professional behavior that would only a few years ago be recognized as unethical, illegal, or otherwise intolerable by American legal, psychological, law enforcement, or social work professionals has increasingly achieved acceptance—indeed applause—from institutional interests which benefit from a joint enterprise enforcing the unwritten law of “who you know is more important than what you know.

In this lawless behavior’s most crass infestation, Family Court Judges are regularly heard to announce, in open court, “I am the law” and proceed to act accordingly with impunity, indifference, and without shame.

The effect on parents and children seeking social support within this coalescing “family law” forum has not been as advertised by courts and professionals—a new healing—but instead a new affliction: an ‘imposed disability’ of de rigueur deprivation of fundamental rights in the name of ‘therapeutic jurisprudence’ funded by converting college funds into a bloated ministry of the Bar Associations leaving families and their children with mere crumbs of their own success.

Many family court judges regularly administer such obnoxious ‘renegade’ justice every day, in open defiance of the rule of law. ‘Sober as a judge’ these days has a whole new meaning.

We need reform toward a more humane family dispute resolution solution

Many of our members are mothers, fathers, and children who have withstood abundant hardship resulting from the current practices of what is generally described as the “Family Law Community.”

These injuries and insults include fraudulent, inefficient, harmful, and even dangerous services; an institutionalized culture of indifference to “clearly-established” liberties; insults to the autonomy and dignity of parents and children; extortion, robbery, abuse, and more, delivered at the hands of eager operators within the divorce industry. ~~ CPRW Vid1 - 2016

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It’s just not possible that intelligent lawyers like judges don’t understand exactly what goes on in their courtrooms, yet they allow it to continue.

This judicial collusion is far more serious crime than even the fraud of divorce attorneys themselves.

We need reform toward a more humane family dispute resolution solution. They’ve treated us as enemies of the state. When we thought we’d be welcomed, or at least heard, we’ve instead become targets of prosecution and terrorist threats. They've assaulted us, harassed our members including threatening “gun cock” and death threat late night phone calls, attacked our businesses, professional licenses, and threatened to jail and extort us with further crime.

It’s outrageous that our own government allows this to happen, and we’re asking the federal court to protect our members as we pursue the civil and criminal charges against the courts. A complete set of filings and exhibits is available from CCFC’s Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/ccfconline ~~ Grandparents and Grandkids World4Justice2016 ~ GR Vid2 -- www.facebook.com/Grandparents4Justice

Jury trials have been unlawfully eliminated as an option in family court by unelected adminstrators, leaving judges to do whatever they want and control the cases completely. The checks and balances of the judicial system have been removed and profit motives win by the gravity of money over decades.

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